An online notebook
I’ve been asked this question a few times recently, so thought it worth sharing my answer with everyone that reads this blog: What’s the best way to approach editing Wikipedia articles about us? There are a number of reasons why you might want to do this – the most obvious being that there are some … Keep reading
Wikipedia is never far from the news, and the last week is no different. First up is the decision to make outgoing links from Wikipedia include the nofollow tag. This basically means that the links are worth nothing in terms of search engine juice. They’ve done this as an antispam measure, but that’s no guarantee … Keep reading
Of course they didn’t. But for a little while, it looked like they might have done: Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country. Wikipedia has blocked that IP address for anonymous edits, but is allowing users of that IP address with actual Wikipedia accounts to … Keep reading